Attached

1. imp. & p. p. of Attach

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Attaching

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Attach

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Attach

1. n. An attachment.
2. v. t. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.
3. v. t. To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
4. v. t. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; — with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.
5. v. t. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; — with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
6. v. t. To take, seize, or lay hold of.
7. v. t. To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; — applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.
8. v. i. To adhere; to be attached.
9. v. i. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.
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Atone

1. v. t. To make satisfaction for; to expiate.
2. v. i. To agree; to be in accordance; to accord.
3. v. i. To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime.
4. v. t. To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease.
5. v. t. To unite in making.

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Atonement

1. n. Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; — with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ.
2. n. Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord.

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Atoner

1. n. One who makes atonement.

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Atonic

1. n. A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.
2. a. Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.
3. a. Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable.
4. a. Destitute of tone vocality; surd.
5. n. A word that has no accent.
6. n. An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing.

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Atony

1. n. Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.

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Atop

1. adv. On or at the top.

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Atrabilarian

1. a. Alt. of Atrabilarious

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